Alarm clock for Ubuntu

Question

Looking for a Alarm Clock for Ubuntu with following:

Repeat an alarm after user defined period of time
Can be paused
Can be reset
Shows a visual indication at alarm time
Visual indication should remain till it is dismissed by user

you can try https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks – Krishna Jan 07 '22 at 14:41 — Krishna, Jan 07 '22 at 14:41

score 38 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 11 '23 at 14:33

These 3 should all do what you require:

https://alarm-clock-applet.github.io/

Alarm Clock is a fully-featured alarm clock which resides in the notification area. It is easy to use yet powerful with support for multiple and repeatable alarms, as well as snoozing and a flexible notification system.

Two types of alarms are supported: Alarm Clocks and Timers. Notification is done by either playing a sound or launching an application.

This software is not available in the official repositories. The developers recommend using their official PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tatokis/alarm-clock-applet
sudo apt update
sudo apt install alarm-clock-applet

Note: The following part of the answer was written for older versions of Ubuntu, and does not work anymore for Ubuntu 20.04+. If you are using a recent version of Ubuntu, use the PPA mentioned above.

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https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/wakeup/

This package has a complete graphical front end with which a user can set an alarm to wake the computer - from poweroff if possible - and read a user-defined text. This text can grab relevant information (date, time, weather, Evolution schedule and tasks, news from an rss feed, number of new email messages, etc.) and speak that as well, or play music, all as defined by the user. More capabilities can be added to the alarm via a complete and simple plugin system. Supports multiple alarms.

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https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/alarm-clock/

Alarm Clock is the personal alarm clock for GTK+ desktop environments. It supports sound fading, scheduled alarms, snooze option, passive window reminders, exception lists for scheduled alarms, exporting alarms and much more!

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All links are broken, but for `alarm-clock-applet` you may find a package here: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=alarm-clock-applet — Jocelyn, Jan 20 '20 at 19:16
I downloaded this app, by me, is the `Start Application` button on by default and it is imposible to turn off. The default command is `rhythmbox-client --play`. I just left it like that. Then what I later found out is that this 'Rhythmbox` is on by default when I boot the computer and starts to play some media files that happen to be in its playlist. — dafnahaktana, Dec 29 '20 at 10:50
Links : https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/alarm-clock-applet , http://alarm-clock.pseudoberries.com , https://launchpad.net/alarm-clock , https://github.com/joh/alarm-clock , https://launchpad.net/~joh/+archive/ubuntu/ppa — Banee Ishaque K, Jul 22 '22 at 02:10
Installed with PPA on Mint Linux 21.1 and love it. Thanks very much @Rinzwind — digitalextremist, Apr 27 '23 at 20:57

score 17 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '18 at 14:46

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By Terminal, you can use this command:

sudo apt-get install alarm-clock-applet

Source: http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2015/05/how-to-install-alarm-clock-in-ubuntu-1504.html

answered Aug 18 '18 at 14:46

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What does this add to the existing, accepted answer? – Organic Marble Aug 18 '18 at 15:47
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My answer gives the user the ability to install the app directly using the terminal in a simple way, the accepted answer gives only links to the app repo and it redirects to https://snapcraft.io/store I personally get confused and didn't get any benefit from it. – Omar Alahmed Aug 26 '18 at 08:42
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Package doesn't exist for Ubuntu 19.10, but you may find an older package here (package for 19.4 works on 19.10): https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=alarm-clock-applet – Jocelyn Jan 20 '20 at 19:19
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Am grateful to you for this shortcut option. – Aquarius_Girl Aug 18 '20 at 08:59
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I wish I saw this answer first – Phil_1984_ Nov 03 '20 at 22:54
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I am getting this error: `E: Unable to locate package alarm-clock-applet` on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – Kevin Patel Dec 16 '21 at 12:42

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 23 '17 at 03:01

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You might want to have a look at Teatime:

edited Mar 23 '17 at 03:01

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answered Jul 25 '16 at 21:01

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sudo snap install teatime; see https://snapcraft.io/teatime – Andrew Krizhanovsky Jul 25 '20 at 08:08
This app does not support setting an alarm at a certain time of the day, nor does it support repeating that alarm. Does not do what the OP asked – Jacques Apr 08 '21 at 08:01

Jacob Vlijm · Answer 4 · 2017-12-22T20:31:02.380

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For Ubuntu Budgie

Budgie CountDown

The icon changes color on time progress, from green to yellow - red.

Installation

For 16.04 - 17.10:

Activate backports:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntubudgie/backports

and run:

sudo apt install budgie-countdown-applet

For 18.04 and higher, it will be in the repos.

edited Dec 22 '17 at 20:31

answered Dec 22 '17 at 20:23

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rcpa0 · Answer 5 · 2022-06-28T14:51:05.260

To install alarm-clock-applet in Ubuntu 22.04: https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/alarm-clock-applet/download. I downloaded the amd64 architecture for my system: alarm-clock-applet_0.3.4-1build1_amd64.deb.

$ sudo apt-get install ./alarm-clock-applet_0.3.4-1build1_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 alarm-clock-applet : Depends: gconf-service
                      Depends: libappindicator1 (>= 0.4.90)
                      Depends: libgconf-2-4 (>= 3.2.5) but it is not installed
                      Depends: libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installed
                      Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
$ sudo apt-get --fix-broken install

"Alarm Clock" application should now be available to run.

Alarm clock for Ubuntu

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For Ubuntu Budgie

Installation

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